A victim of the spray can

Flywire screens seem to be an optional extra in Sydney.  Surprisingly enough I didn’t have any problems with flywireless windows until we moved to Mascot.  Just a couple of weeks after we moved we were getting eaten alive by mozzies, and what I found almost more disturbing was that buzzing that you hear around your head when you’re trying to get to sleep.  About the only good thing that our landlord did while we lived in that flat was that he paid to have flywire screens put in.  We were so thankful.

So when we bought our flat, the very first thing we organised was flywire screens on the windows and doors.  It was a wise move, we didn’t have any problems with mosquitos all summer so it was money well spent!  So we were a little confused a couple of mornings ago when we noticed a lot of mosquitos in the bathroom.  We killed at least 20 and there were some still flying around.  And once we started looking around we saw many in the kitchen/dining/lounge area as well.  No matter how many we killed, there were at least as many again the next morning.  And again thismorning.  We couldn’t work out where they were coming from, until tonight Andrew wondered aloud whether they could be coming from the water that some old flowers were sitting in.  I knew I should have thrown them out a while ago, I guess I just never got around to it.  Neither had Andrew. 

As I picked up the vase a heap of mozzies flew off.  I pulled out the old flowers and looked in at the water.  It was literally wriggling, there were loads and loads of wrigglers in the stagnant couple of litres of water.  So the mystery of where the mozzies were coming from was solved.  And a can of fly and mozzie spray purchased from the shop at the front of the complex fixed the rest (I’d already given up swatting them with paper because I kept leaving coloured marks from the newsprint on the wall and ceiling!). 

So the moral of the story is….flywire screens aren’t useful when the mozzies are found in the flower water!

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